Let me know if I'm "getting it." ;) I think the problem boils down to your HW LB device being smart enough. I am guessing you have layer 4 monitoring on your servers, aka, "If I can ping it, it's alive." That's not usually good enough. Use layer 7 monitoring, make a test CF page that says "ok" or something. Your load balancer should check this page and match it to "ok" locally to see if it's getting what it expected within an acceptable time limit. Miss a pull or 3 and it's down. Traffic then is rerouted to your other server.
If that's not it, or not an option... then I guess I don't understand. haha. care to keep trying? (or does anybody else have an idea?) -nathan strutz http://www.dopefly.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Thanks for the reply, Nathan. > >Let's say that I've considered those options (and I actually have), but >decided to try J2EE session sharing. > >The session sharing part works great, however, I *think* I don't want the >"application sharing" bit, but maybe someone can talk me out of my >reservations about it... > >Anyway, say I've got CFMX clustered--one instance on Machine A and another on >Machine B: > >If something hoses up CF on Machine B (an endless loop, for instance), I don't >want Machine A's cluster to keep trying to serve up my CF app from Machine B. > >What I'd like to do is detect Machine B's problem and pull it out of my >(hardware) load balancer's farm. Problem is, I can't know which application >I'm hitting (local or remote), therefore I can't detect which server is hung. > >Please let me know if I need to elaborate further... > >Thanks, >Jamie > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:209601 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
